Charles Leclerc

The Ferrari chief had an angry-looking driver on his hands after the race at Silverstone, as Charles Leclerc fumed over missing out on the podium while ...

The way he was driving there, protecting the position, was amazing. "There's Binotto saying 'do not criticise the team'," said Sky pundit Martin Brundle as he watched the footage. Sergio Perez was comfortably second, while Lewis Hamilton scrapped with and beat Leclerc to the final podium spot in what was an epic race that had everything.

Ferrari have defended their strategy for Charles Leclerc at the British GP, where the team's decisions appeared to favour Carlos Sainz, and cost the ...

They could have easily had time to bring both cars in and put both cars onto soft tyres and not left Charles vulnerable to attack at the end of the race. "This is the point. "This is critical this is the biggest moment for Leclerc's race. Receiving the cheers from the crowd and so many of my fellow drivers… When we got to the restart, he had no grip. This was where the team order was called with Sainz moving out of the way of Leclerc, so Leclerc was in front, and he had more pace. "Fast forward on and at Lap 21 the two Ferrari drivers are doing battle. "This is only my view, and it might change once I see the full picture." Obviously being happy is difficult, but staying calm and being positive is important." Jenson Button on Ferrari not pitting Charles Leclerc: "Obviously that cost him the victory." "There is nothing to sort out internally," he insisted. "We decided to stop Carlos in P2 because Charles had got the track position.

Ferrari principal Mattia Binotto said Charles Leclerc was kept out during the Safety Car at Silverstone in order to preserve track position.

So obviously being happy is difficult but staying calm and I think being positive is important.” But that’s not what we thought was the right decision.” Because the others were just behind and you cannot lose not even a second at the pit stop trying to organise it. “So you don’t know what the others would have done, if he would have stopped as a leader. So we had to make a choice between the first or the second car. Binotto said though that he was actually trying to emphasise to his driver that despite the disappointment, his performance in the race was “fantastic”.

Charles Leclerc was looking well-placed in the British Grand Prix to take his first victory since Melbourne back in April. That was until a late Safety Car ...

I was just trying to do my best to keep the cars behind but obviously on a new soft and a used hard, it’s quite a big difference. But obviously with the Safety Car at the end, we decided to leave the lead car out and to pit the [trailing] car, which was myself and Carlos, and it didn’t pay off for me, so it’s a big disappointment. I saw the front wing fly off and I was like, ‘that doesn’t look good.’

The championship frontrunner after three races, Leclerc has seen his challenge derailed by a string of poor results, some of them self-inflicted wounds like ...

Leclerc has seen his title challenge fade with a string of Ferrari failures. If there was any consolation for Leclerc it was that it was a no less disappointing afternoon for the Dutchman, who had car issues of his own and finished seventh. "I don't know yet," said Leclerc when asked why he wasn't brought in ahead of Sainz. "It was obviously very late (the call) and they made the decision to stay, said "stay out", so I cannot come in obviously if we are aligned and that was it."

Charles Leclerc missed out on the podium after an intense duel with Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez. The Monegasque lost important points in the title race.

Leclerc remained on the circuit and had to restart the race on his older hard tyres. The Monegasque will not have been happy with the strategic choice of his team. After the race, Leclerc had an interesting conversation with Mattia Binotto.

Leclerc and Ferrari chief Mattia Binotto claimed there was no animosity in a tense-looking chat at Silverstone, but not everyone is buying that explanation ...

"He was pushing his team-mate round and in the end they swapped them over, gave him the lead, but the bad pitstop call at the end there with the safety car. As he did so, Sky Sports cameras caught what looked to be a frosty exchange between the racer and team chief Binotto, who was wagging his finger. It came after he was not called into the pits to change tyres when the safety car was deployed late into the race, while most of those around him were.

At the end of a race that was marred by a terrible crash involving Guanyu Zhou's (Alfa Romeo), the Monegasque driver saw his teammate Carlos Sainz take.

In the world championship, despite coming seventh (the result of a flat tyre during the race), Max Verstappen (181 points) is still comfortably in first place, ahead of his teammate Sergio Perez (147 points) and Charles Leclerc (138 points), who now has Carlos Sainz (127 points) in his rear view mirror. “Honestly? I am very, very, very disappointed.” “We could have stopped when the safety car came out, but I was asked to stay on the track…,” he said after the race, his face strained.

BBC F1 broadcaster Jolyon Palmer has criticised Ferrari's approach to the British Grand Prix after Charles Leclerc missed out on a podium.

I don’t think you could actually confidently say Leclerc is the dominant championship contender in that team now. In all of them, he has had two retirements, two fourths and a fifth. “Leclerc was the stronger driver at Ferrari today. “The management have some questions to answer because Leclerc should have been taking big points out of Verstappen today. There were also question marks over whether they should have let Leclerc through past Sainz earlier on when Leclerc was so much quicker. Leclerc finished in fourth place, having missed out on a likely victory after a late Safety Car halted his charge.

Running one-two with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, but under big pressure from Lewis Hamilton's advancing Mercedes, this was a potential race-losing moment ...

He did his best and there was no way probably to give the race to Charles. I think he did the best he could do for a Ferrari victory.” And even when stopping in the first pit stops earlier, compared to Charles, he had no discussion because he trusts in the team and the way he is behaving. It would have been very difficult for him because the others behind on soft tyres would have been very aggressive. If we would have stopped [Charles] maybe the others would have stayed out and he would have maybe been fourth on soft tyres. “On the other side, would he have been able to recover the position? With only 3.5s separating Leclerc and Sainz at the time of the Safety Car call, they could not pit both cars, as it would have meant the second one being stacked.

FERRARI driver Charles Leclerc was seen to be engaged in an aggressive conversation with team boss Mattia Binotto after the British Grand Prix at ...

“And then after the restart behind the safety car again, the way he was driving and protecting his position is amazing and outstanding. “And for him today was a great opportunity in terms of the championship because he was leading while Max had some problems. He has been once again unlucky today, because a safety car when you are leading a few laps to the end, is somehow bad luck. Leclerc slid down the grid as Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton also passed him to complete the podium. Red Bull star Verstappen got off to a solid start and appeared to be set to secure a comfortable win before debris on the track damaged the floor of his car. However, a breathless final few laps of the dramatic British Grand Prix saw Leclerc ultimately miss out on a podium spot.